Macro in JS: How to access ThisComponent-equivalent, run findAll

[Michael Stahl]

On 15.03.2017 22:32, jan wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to execute the command "findAll" in a Javascript Macro. In
> Basic, one can access thisComponent and access its findAll method (See [1])
> 
> However, the exposed Javascript API does not have thisComponent. I tried
> 
>   importClass(Packages.com.sun.star.frame.XDesktop)
>   var currentComp = XDesktop.getCurrentComponent()
> 
> to get the current document (as described in [2])  but it failed
> silently [3].
> 
> I also tried
> 
>   var desktop = XSCRIPTCONTEXT.getDesktop();
>   var comp = desktop.getCurrentComponent();
> 
> …which gives me something, but that returned object does not have the
> findAll-Method.

did you try the getDocument() method?

http://api.libreoffice.org/docs/idl/ref/interfacecom_1_1sun_1_1star_1_1script_1_1provider_1_1XScriptContext.html#a191c375534e4ecbb1309581035eca1c6